How do I specify the key that holds the 'id' or 'value' of each option? about select2 HOT 9 CLOSED

not possible right now. the .id key is hardcoded. we would need a new option where a function can be specified that would get back the id and then all the places that access it via .id would need to be replaced with a call to that function. there are a lot of places like that, so this will be a rather large change.

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Damn. This is a necessary change for me. Any notes you can provide to this endeavor would help. At the very least, it would be good if I can get it to support a string value, and not necessarily a function.

It would pretty much mean anywhere you refer to id just refer to opts.data.id instead, which would default to id of course.

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For now I've gotten around this limitation by doing:

formatResult: function (employee) {
    employee.id = employee.eid;
    return '<strong>' + employee.fullName + '</strong>' + employee.email;
},

However I still feel quite adamantly that this should be fixed. It could cause problems for situations where .id is already in use for other purposes (which is the case for myself) and since it's destructive to the data.

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Turns out my fix does not work for the first selected value. After that, all subsequent values show the proper 'eid' instead. Really need proper support for this.

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going to work on this soon.

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try the branch above and let me know if it works well for you.

you can set a new id option which can either be a string representing the id key or a function(choice)

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Cool appears to be working in my tests so far

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i will merge this later today unless you find something wrong with it.

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merged into master

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